Showing posts with label toilets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toilets. Show all posts

Monday, 6 December 2010

Shitty Semiotics




Above is an Anglo Saxon toilet bowl most readers of this blog should be familiar with. It's very centred isn't it?



Next is the French loo with it's rearward mechanic situated most closely to the flush pipe.


And finally above is the German toilet design, with a completely opposite forward-emphasis arrangement in comparison to the French version.

The visuals are the support material for the clip below. The first time I listened to Zizek deconstructing European toilets, I loved it and wanted to write it up as a post, but as somebody has generously uploaded a clip of his toilet-architecture rap I can include post it instead. It's hard to find any fault between his analysis of the Teutonic, French and Anglo Saxon toilet designs, and for those who haven't embarked on a tranhumanism voyage yet is fucking funny.


Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Hutong Life

One of the quintessential yet rapidly disappearing Beijing ways of life is the hutong. The hutong is the traditional architectural and communal structure for this style of living and stretches back centuries. Communal living in this style does however often present some harder realities. There are a terrific series of posts on Beijing hutongs including lots of photography over at Beijing Visitor